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The mission of the GCRN, as regulator of Naturopathic Medicine in the U.K., is and has always been, to offer its members and the wider public the most up-to-date balanced scientific evidence, in order to make an informed decision on the treatments they may or may not wish to receive. As an association, we are undoubtedly pro-choice and take the same consistent position with the COVID 19 vaccine.

The Integrated Healthcare Collaborative (IHC) backed petition, calling for the government to allow all complementary healthcare workers to be allowed to return to face-to-face consultations, has surged past 10,000 signatures in just 4 days.

Doctors and other clinicians searching the ‘Google’ of the biomedical world, PubMed®, could find they are only finding one sixtieth of the available relevant references, a new study by non-profit Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) International has found. This could prevent them from making life-saving clinical decisions for their patients.

The Integrated Healthcare Collaborative (IHC), of which the General Council and Register of Naturopaths (GCRN) is a Core Member, has written to the Prime Minister to demand the government explains its scientific justification for preventing complementary healthcare workers from returning to practice.

On March 30th,the World Naturopathic Federation (WNF) participated in a World Health Organization (WHO) online call with ten other NGOs from nine countries to discuss “The Role of Traditional and Complementary and Integrative Medicine in Controlling COVID-19”.

The General Council andRegister of Naturopaths (GCRN) is urging its members to sign up to an international registry that has been set up to track the role of practitioners during the coronavirus pandemic.

Currently, at the top of every conversation is the novel coronavirus outbreak. The virus has been named “SARS-CoV-2” and the disease it causes has been named “coronavirus disease 2019” (abbreviated “COVID-19”) and described as the next world pandemic.

It is important to follow the advice of your local Ministry of Health during any outbreak.

In light of recent negative press articles, the British Naturopathic Association would like to make it clear that its members make no claims that they can treat the 2019-nCoV (coronavirus) infection and is not aware of any research that proves that the virus can be successfully treated using naturopathic care.

Naturopathic medicine combines ancient traditional healing techniques with modern scientific-based medicine to treat patients holistically. A naturopath focuses on the whole person and aims to get to the root cause of an illness rather than simply treat symptoms.

The General Council and Register of Naturopaths (GCRN) has issued a statement on Australian ‘naturopath’, Barbara O’Neill, who was banned from practising for life by the New South Wales Health Care Complaints Commission.

The British Naturopathic Association will focus on demystifying hormones at its inaugural summit next month, it has announced.